Lt. (jg) Jeanette Shin, the U.S. Military’s first commissioned Buddhist chaplain, has written a guest post at Wildmind Buddhist Meditation about “The Buddha as Warrior”. Lt. Shin, who serves in the U.S. Navy, also blogs at Buddhist Military Sangha.
In today’s “Why We Travel” section of the New York Times, His Eminence Tsona Rinpoche talks to Seth Kugel, and Ruth Fremson offers a wonderful picture of him en route to New Delhi. Check it out.
Over at the Tricycle Editors’ Blog, our friend and past interviewee Jeff Wilson has an essential reality-check on Buddhist monastics and coordinated violence. His comments come on the heels of another article about the possibility of a violent insurrection by monks in Burma and much dismayed response to this in the Buddhoblogosphere. Take a look.
Reuters has more on the cyber-attacks launched by the Burmese junta against exile dissident magazines such as The Irrawaddy and the Democratic Voice of Burma. I mentioned the attacks in a post yesterday.
Via Molly De Shong at Shambhala Sun Space: Volunteer to help with a massive anti-war canvassing effort tomorrow, September 20th, with Million Doors for Peace. Molly points us to a blog post by Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel for more information.
